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<div class='vspace'></div><h2>Commenting out long blocks on a page</h2>
<p>Also known as: multiline comments
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<p class='vspace'>If you want to put many lines of comments on a page that are only visible in edit view and that can include directives that you don't want processed, use the "if false" trick:
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(:if false:)
here is some
text
(:searchbox:)
with other directives
(:if:)
but the intervening lines will only show in edit view
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<br  />but the intervening lines will only show in edit view
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<div class='vspace'></div><h2>Spaceless block preformat</h2>
<p>How can I do spaceless block preformat - that is, preformat multiple lines without prefixing each line with a single space?  For instance, I want to display a code block in the wiki.
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<p class='vspace'>The answer is our old friend, [=...=], but <span  style='color: green;'>with a space</span> on the line before the opening bracket. Here is an example:
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 [= 
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  time_t epoch;
  char sdate[MAXS];
  struct tm* tmP;
  if (argc&lt;2) {
    USAGE(NULL);
  }
} 
</pre><p><code>=]</code>
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<div class='vspace'></div><h2>Indenting blocks of text with line breaks</h2>
<p>Blocks of text to which <code class='escaped'>(:linebreaks:)</code> has been applied can be indented by preceding the first line of the block with indention arrows (<code class='escaped'>-&gt;</code>) and aligning subsequent lines under the first. An unindented line stops the block indentation.
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(:linebreaks:)

This is normal text, no indentation.

-&gt; Here is some indented
   text with line breaks
   in the middle of the text.

   We can even continue the indentation 
   across paragraphs.

Now we're back to normal again.

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<div class='vspace'></div><div class='indent'>Here is some indented
<br  />text with line breaks
<br  />in the middle of the text.
<br  /><div class='vspace'></div>We can even continue the indentation 
<br  />across paragraphs.
</div><p class='vspace'>Now we're back to normal again.
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<div class='vspace'></div><h2>Insert spacing within a text line</h2>
<p>To insert additional spacing in a textline you can use space characters from the <a class='wikilink' href='#' onclick="OS.getWindowInstance(this).getManager().displayArticle('specialCharactersList')">SpecialCharactersList</a> like &amp;ensp; &amp;emsp; &amp;thinsp; &amp;nbsp; .
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Some &amp;ensp; &amp;ensp; spacing

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